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Rats, Bedbugs Infest Buildings Owned by Ground Zero Mosque Developer
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Rats, Bedbugs Infest Ground Zero Mosque Imam's Tenants' Homes - ABC News
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Mosque spiritual leader Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf also alleged slumlord in Jersey - NYPOST.com
Ground Zero Imam a Taxpayer-Subsidized Slumlord - HUMAN EVENTS
Seems as if the Imam has other building he does not take care of they are rat and bedbug infested according to his tenants. No, heat, no garbage pick up, Perhaps before investing 100M into yet another building he needs to care for those he already has? He has received over 2 million taxpayer/federal dollars to renovate the buildings and his tenants say they live in squalor for years.
Ground Zero Imam a Taxpayer-Subsidized Slumlord
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NorthJersey.com: Imam in mosque debate has history of tenant troubles
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Ground Zero Imam a Taxpayer-Subsidized Slumlord - HUMAN EVENTS
Residents, many of whom are immigrants and most of whom are working-class Hispanic Catholics, say they have complained about unsanitary conditions for years. The imam, however, has done little to make repairs or exterminate vermin, they claim.
The projects have been plagued by complaints and financial problems. According to the Record, Rauf received public funding through powerful state politicians including Sen. Robert Mendez, former mayor of Union City, and Robert C. Janiszewski, a county executive later convicted of taking bribes.
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Rats, Bedbugs Infest Ground Zero Mosque Imam's Tenants' Homes - ABC News
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Mosque spiritual leader Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf also alleged slumlord in Jersey - NYPOST.com
Page after page of municipal health records examined by The Record show repeated complaints ranging from failure to pick up garbage, to rat and bedbug infestations and no heat and hot water.
Cynthia Balko, 48, of Union City -- a longtime tenant of Raufs -- said shes had to live with rats, leaks and no heat: I dont have anything nice to say about the man.
Ground Zero Imam a Taxpayer-Subsidized Slumlord - HUMAN EVENTS
Seems as if the Imam has other building he does not take care of they are rat and bedbug infested according to his tenants. No, heat, no garbage pick up, Perhaps before investing 100M into yet another building he needs to care for those he already has? He has received over 2 million taxpayer/federal dollars to renovate the buildings and his tenants say they live in squalor for years.
Ground Zero Imam a Taxpayer-Subsidized Slumlord
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NorthJersey.com: Imam in mosque debate has history of tenant troubles
To understand her perspective, you need to go to a forlorn corner on the Jersey side -- to 22nd Street in Union City and a four-story apartment building owned by Rauf. The locks on a front door are broken and the hallway leading to [Melba] Lopezs two-bedroom apartment smells of urine.
Looking east on 22nd Street -- back across the Hudson -- the Empire State building pokes the sky. On that side of the river, New Yorks mayor speaks of Rauf as a symbol of religious freedom and last week invited the Imams wife, Daisy Khan, to dinner at Gracie Mansion to honor the Islamic celebration of Ramadan.
But in Union City, Lopez, a single mother, has another way of describing the man who has time to promote the so-called Ground Zero mosque, but does not seem to have time to answer her complaints about leaks in her toilet.
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Ground Zero Imam a Taxpayer-Subsidized Slumlord - HUMAN EVENTS